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03/07/2012
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Federal environmental agents from IBAMA, in joint action with the IRS and the Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (ANVISA), sealed off two containers containing 40 tons of garbage that would be discharged in Santa Catarina through the port of Itajai. The charge will be returned to their home country, Canada.
The container seized on the morning of last Friday in the courtyard of the terminal Teporti in Itajai, as described, should contain 60 bales of recycled polyethylene (chips) for the manufacture of plastic packaging. However, the load was sacks and plastic bags used, dirty, containing labels, lids of plastic containers, including plastic bags used for collection of household waste, with high levels of decaying organic debris and incidence of larvae and insects.
According to Carlos Mergen, head of IBAMA's regional office in Itajai, the majority composition of the plastic material surveyed is made up garbage bags and grocery bags used that as well as contaminated, are characterized by having a very thin film, which prevents the recycling, in view of the high energy consumption for processing, and the excessive consumption of water for prewashing of the material.
As Mergen, once all documents are collected, IBAMA shall claim, which provides for fines of R$ 500 to R$ 2 million.
Badaró Ferrari
Ascom IBAMA / SC
Source: IBAMA
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